This is so damn concerning. When Norma Lester served on the Shelby County, TN election commission, she once found an employee of voting machine vendor ES&S alone in the county’s tabulation room on election night. Talk about “being in the room where it happens.” @OversightDems 1/
A few years later, ES&S was still servicing & maintaining Shelby County’s voting system when Commissioner @benniejsmith’s review of precinct poll tapes showed that votes were vanishing from predominantly black precincts, as reported in Bloomberg here. 3/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-voting-technology/
ES&S was also the voting machine vendor whose machines in the dead of night deleted 6k votes from the total for @DonSiegelman, AL’s last Democratic Governor, costing him the race. Karl Rove’s client seized the ballots b4 they cld be recounted & illegally certified the result. 6/
Here, Chairwoman Lester challenges @OversightDems to investigate the disappearance of votes from predominantly black precincts in Shelby County, as well as the current election administrator’s lack of transparency re: the new voting system RFP & document requests. 7/
Are you listening @OversightDems?! 8/
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